HANDICAP AND DEVELOPMENT is aimed at…
HANDICAP AND DEVELOPMENT set up in
association 1991…
in
order to overcome handicap and promote cultural exchange and fair and solidal development
between North and South in the world.
HANDICAP AND DEVELOPMENT Association at Peace Centre InfoH5 - 5th
District Via Stradella 192 - 10147 TURIN - Italy -
Phone number: 011 / 44.355.57
FAX: 011 / 4435575
Tax number 94021510014 - POSTAL CURRENT ACCOUNT 71619753
In Italy
and, more generally, in many countries of the North of Planet a wide and
effective action for disabled people to be inserted in and to be integrated has
difficulty to be realized.
As
existing outstanding resources in terms of investments, technologies and
scientific research and being significant and numerous the single positive
experiences about, plus the acknowledgment of some basic rights at formal
level, cultural, economic and social "barriers" are to point out really
preventing the carrying out of full and concrete right of equality, taking part
and citizenship for those who don't correspond to the standards of
"normality", "functionality" and "efficiency"
imposed by groups and dominating cultures.
The same
effects, often negatively "enlarged" owing to a variety of reasons
among which is basic the impoverishment of resources, take place in the
countries in the South of world.
Also
here, in some realities, where it's being tried to get out of war and
oppression situations, exist and/or are being formed groups, associations and
initiatives that, even though acting under conditions of utmost economic
precariousness and "instruments", are authors of own quite original
and advanced cultural intervention models, both for overcoming handicap, the
disabled people to be integrated into, and for a more general development of
local societies.
The
social alienation, the poverty are no natural or fortuitous phenomena not to be
eliminated but the result of unjust and discriminating relationship.
Those
economic-political mechanisms that impose the organic social alienation of
"poor Countries" in the South of world from the international
background, are the same that put aside the weak groups and subjects inside the
rich "Countries" in the North of world.
As for
mechanisms and power groups, inside the societies being said
"developing", these exclusions are considered in a particularly
violent and dramatic way, by "producing" the excluded persons among
the excluded ones, the "poor" of "poor", whereas the most
part of disabled people are surely to point out.
It's
worrying the generalizing of a trend efficiency -production oriented logics to
be favoured, making of the market the only standard of judgement, priority,
regulation and development, by risking supporting a conception through which
the needs of autonomy, care and social integration of differently handicapped
people, included their rights, would be a "luxury" permitted to
societies being economically strong and in expansion only and not rather the
standard criterion how any society is really democratic, participated in, civil
and humanly to be lived.
Starting
from this reality, taking into account that the same initiatives of Non
Government Organizations and of international solidarity, when operating in the
national health insurance sector too, only seldom act on the handicap problems
throughout this point of view, the "Handicap and Development"
association has been formed in TURIN in order to draw everybody's attention on
said problem promoting consequent, even if modest, concrete initiatives.
More
specifically "Handicap and Development" is understood to do as
follows:
a)
Collect funds to finance programs run by groups and associations of the
countries in the South of world, especially if made up the same disabled
people, by putting information, experiences and professionalism at disposal.
b)
Promote occasions of meetings, knowledge trips, mutual visits of delegations,
cultural exchanges and collaborations, confrontations, reflections and
researches among basic groups, associations, italian professional operators and
corresponding realities of the countries in the South of world on the different
models of intervention for the global integration of disabled people, as well
as on the contextual study of suitable technologies for the autonomy in the
different cultural and geographic environments.
c)
Collects, organize, produce, elaborate and spread information and documentation
on the realities and all problems related to the physical, psychic and sensory
handicapping, particularly in the South of world.
d)
Promote the reasonable and united commerce of products coming from craftsmen
and cooperatives in the South of world, as well as of further forms of mutual
solidarity/social justice, by cooperating with further associations and
realities in the branch by spreading their initiatives.
e) Always
and any way operate in respect with and supporting the choices of freedom,
self-determination and self-development of persons and people, as well as for
the integration at any level of disabled people into a worldwide society,
respecting and enhancing the differences for a common global growth.
To make all possible,
we need your help too!
You can
collaborate with "Handicap and Development":
- BY
TAKING PART OF THE ASSOCIATION AND/OR OF THE WORKING GROUP ON HANDICAPPING AND
INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE, BY PUTTING SHARE OF YOUR TIME AND CAPABILITIES
AT DISPOSAL IN ORDER TO WORK TOGETHER ON THESE ITEMS.
- BY
PAYING A CONTRIBUTION IN ORDER TO SUPPORT ALL SOLIDARITY INITIATIVES UNDERTAKEN
(on the POSTAL CURRENT ACCOUNT n.33756107 entered in favour of: Giugiaro Emilio
- Turin -, underlining "Handicap and Development Initiatives").
- BY
"CREATING" "SENSITIZATION", CULTURE, INTERVENTIONS ON THE INTEGRATION
OF DISABLED PEOPLE PLUS REASONABLE AND UNITED CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN SOUTH
AND NORTH IN THE WORLD.
The
Handicap and Development Association operationally refers to the Peace
Documentation Centre and to the "Informahandicap" of 5th Administrative
District in Turin, C.so Cincinnato, 115 (Phone Number 011/44.385.20-23-24),
participating there in the working group on HANDICAPPING AND INTERNATIONAL
CULTURAL EXCHANGE, open to all groups and citizens to be interested in, on
Thursday 3th of every month (except for non-working days), at 5.30 p.m.
We are waiting for you!
Contact us!
HANDICAP AND DEVELOPMENT is aimed
at:
a)
Promoting
the preventing of handicaps and the integration of people having disability in
any sociocultural and environmental context-background, starting from the
italian, Piedmont region and Turin area reality, by qualifying its own action
on the defence and promotion of the rights of disabled people and, more
generally, of the most disadvantaged and emarginated part of population, also
through informative-cultural activities of research and social solidarity.
b)
Developing
even in cooperation with other subjects, some ideas, proposals and projects for
promoting the autonomy at all levels and the independent life of people having
disability, by stimulating the activation of suitable territorial services, of
an effective domiciliary and personal assistance, as well as of housing
community, of first-ranged acceptance, family houses, housing groups and
whatever else being useful, permitting the active stay in its own household
group and/or in its own territory, also under situations of reduced or
impossible personal autonomy at physical, psychical and sensory level.
c)
Promoting
the getting over of architectural and cultural features that deny access to the
handicapped, denying of fact the equality among all citizens and their own
equal opportunities in taking part guaranteed by the Italian Constitution and
the Universal Statement of Men Human Rights.
d)
Promoting
and safeguarding, even in cooperation with other subjects, the right to moving
of disabled people, stimulating the Local Bodies and the competent Institutions
so that the traditional means of public transportation are really within the
reach of everybody and also of disabled people, as well as the institution, the
experimentation, the spreading and correct management of substitutive and/or
supplementary services to ensure any way a real moving of disabled people (such
as for instance taxi-service, equipped minibuses, integrated multitransportation
forms and so on) that have as a goal the making possible for disabled people
the easy moving, having at disposal a variety of alternatives.
e)
Getting
together, organizing, producing, managing and spreading documentation on the
realities and problems about the physical, psychical and sensory disability in
the countries on the way of Development and, more generally, on the
underdevelopment and integration of disadvantaged people through the
initiatives thought to be suitable for.
f)
Promoting
occasions of meeting, studying, confrontation, thinking and research among base
groups, italian operators and also corresponding realities in the countries on
the way of Development on the different models of social
intervention-integration of disabled people, as well as on the contextual study
of suitable technologies and computer science at the service of person and for
the autonomy in different cultural and geographical environments. In fact the
so called technological revolution with the relating development of new technologies
particularly in the branch of computer science, communication, robotics,
environmental check and telematics, if suitably implemented and aimed at, makes
up an incomparable occasion for supporting rehabilitation, social and working
insertion in people having physical, psychical and sensory disability
g)
Organizing
trips aimed at getting to know people, mutual visits of delegations and
whatever else might be useful for favouring cultural exchanges among realities
operating on disability in the Northern and Southern Countries in the world.
h)
Supporting
intervention programs on disability and handicap promoted or managed by
realities locally organized in the Countries on the way of Development, by
putting information, expertise and professionalism at disposal.
i)
Working
and carrying out Cooperation projects in such a branch, by collaborating with
Public Bodies, Non Governmental Organizations, associations and italian,
foreign and international supporting groups, in close interconnection with
local counterparts.
j)
Creating
teams aimed at defining and managing single intervention projects in specific
political-geographical areas.
k)
Promoting
moments of study and research aimed at better understanding real needs, through
the evolution and monitoring of actual services present in the Piedmont
territory particularly, even through the consideration of experiences somewhere
else realized and proposals made by other groups and associations.
l)
Promoting,
even in cooperation with other subjects, the respect of italian regulations in
force about the elimination of architectural features that deny access to the
handicapped in public and in private and also the evolution of the same
regulations in view of an environment being fully accessible, usable and safe
to anyone, making aware, informing, producing culture and information on the
right of having an environment being fully architectural featureless,
promoting, even in cooperation with other subjects, public displays and
whatever other action aimed at stimulating the intervention and engagement of
bodies and competent administrations for the elimination of architectural
features in any sphere of life, relaunching, even in cooperation with other
subjects, the confrontation at different levels for the elimination of
architectural features that deny access to the handicapped with municipal and
regional administrations, promoting,
even in cooperation with other subjects, survey and denunciation activities on
the presence of architectural features in the Piedmont territory, relaunching, even in cooperation with other
subjects, the right to the accessibility of tourist and hotel facilities
particularly in the Piedmont region, searching, even in cooperation with other
subjects, for the interconnection and operating coordination with regional
committees for the elimination of architectural features that deny access to
the handicapped present in other regions by promoting informative exchanges,
common actions and whatever else provided being not in contrast with the
purposes pointed out in the present act
m)
Starting,
even in cooperation with other subjects, particularly at Turin and Piedmont
local level, the confrontation also through periodic meetings with
assessorships and competent administrations for the progressive setting up of
an integrated public transportation system being totally accessible, promoting,
even in cooperation with other subjects, initiatives particularly at regional
level – Piedmont – aimed at permitting the full and easy moving of every
citizen regardless of the specific physical, sensory and mental condition.
n)
Promoting
the spreading of culture, insertion and social integration of disabled people,
for the refusal of any form of social, cultural discrimination and racism by
always operating, any way, in full respect and support of choices of freedom,
self-determination and self-development of people for the integration of
disabled persons.
o)
Promoting
the expertise and spreading of resources exchange forms safeguarding the
southern producers in the world, in an international background favouring more
and more the profit of rich countries to disadvantage of the development of
poor countries, even through the promotion of trade forms being fair and
jointly liable, plus fair saving.
p)
Handling
for the preventing of any form of disability and handicap even through the
engagement for the ban of any form of production, marketing and installation of
anti-personnel mines, for the clearing of territories infested by mines and for
the victims rehabilitation.
q)
Promoting,
even in cooperation with other subjects, the forming of data banks,
telecommunication type too, and whatever else being useful to the spreading of
themes shown in the present act.
r)
Promoting
and joining associations, committees and further collective subjects operating
with purposes pointed out in the present statute or any way not in contrast
with goals shown in the present act.
s)
Collecting
funds and benevolent donations to achieve statutory purposes and implement
connected activities referable to them
HANDICAP AND DEVELOPMENT set up in
association 1991,
in Turin, and is formed by persons, disabled and not, interested in operating
in the branch of handicap and development in a non welfarism point of view but
based on involment and desire to be the centre of attention as of subjects,
groups, bodies and so on, that in the Northern and Southern part in the world
fight for a real right of citizenship of the most disadvantaged persons and for
a re-balancing among poor and rich countries in view of a global, multiethnic,
fair and jointly liable society.
Even professional men (
physiotherapists, architects, cultural operators and so on ) join it ready to
share their know-hows and professionalisms in order to create, together with
the same emarginated subjects, a network of information, cooperations and
projects aimed at improving, starting from the bottom, the quality of life for
all, in the Southern as well as in the Northern part in the world.
This engagement arises out of a set
of considerations to be summarized as follows: in Italy and, more generally, in
many countries in the Northern part of Planet a wide and effective action of
insertion and integration of disabled people finds it hard to be implemented,
as well as are numerous the individuals and groups excluded by the sharing of
welfare, know-hows and power.
As there are in fact considerable
resources in terms of investments, technologies and scientific research and as
are significant and numerous the single positive experiences and the
acknowledgement of some basic rights at formal level, remain cultural, economic
and social barriers that surely prevent the realization of full and concrete
right of equality, taking part and citizenship to all those who don’t
correspond to the rules of “normality”, “functionality” and “efficiency”
imposed by groups and dominating cultures.
Worse conditions, often negatively
enhanced owing to a variety of reasons among which, basic is, the depauperation
of resources, take place in the countries in the Southern part of world. Even
if, here too, in some realities, especially there where it is being trying to
get out of war and oppression situations, there are and/or are being forming
groups, associations and initiatives that, as handling under conditions of
utmost economic precariousness and “tooling”, are makers of their own cultural
models and pretty original and advanced interventions, both for the getting
over of handicap and the integration of disabled people and for a more general
development of local societies, useful and “exportable” even in backgrounds
being so called more advanced.
This comes from the fact that the
alienation, the poverty are no natural or casual phenomena, being inevitable or
not to be eliminated but rather the “product” of unfair and discriminating
relationships. The economic-political mechanisms and power groups that oblige
on the fringes the subjects and “weak” groups inside the “rich countries”, in
the Northern part of world, are the same imposing the organic alienation of the
“poor countries” in the Southern part of Planet from the international
background and their systematic exploitation.
Such mechanisms and groups, inside
the societies so named “on the way of Development”, consider these phenomena in
a particularly violent and dramatic manner, giving rise to intolerable poverty
and degradation situations, the excluded persons among the excluded ones, the
“poor people” of “poor people” among whom the most of disabled people are
surely to be counted. It’s worrying the spreading everywhere of a tendency to
favour efficiency-productive logics which make of the market, of a certain type
of market, the only criterion of any priority, rule and development.
There is a risk to strengthen a
conception according to which the needs of emancipation, autonomy, care and
integration of people being variously disadvantaged or minority and the
safeguard of their own rights should be a “luxury” permitted only to societies
economically strong and under expansion, an accessory and residual goal, being
always and anyway successive, and not rather the indicator of how, on the other
hand, any society is or wants be really developed, civil, democratic,
participated and humanly liveable.
Starting from this reality and
considering that the same initiatives of the Non Governmental Organizations and
international solidarity, on operating also in the sociomedical branch, they
intervene only rarely with this point of view on the handicap problems, it is
being formed the association HANDICAP AND DEVELOPMENT to draw the attention of
all on the problem by promoting consequent, even if modest, concrete
initiatives.
INGANNI PROF. DR. GIAN PIERO
VIA TIZIANO N. 3
10126 TORINO ITALY
INTERPRETER-TRANSLATOR
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